Palestinian writer Lama Khater has been exposed for over 17 days to harsh pressures by Israeli interrogators in Ashkelon jail to force her to make certain confessions.
According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) Khater has been interrogated intensively while being tied to a chair for 20 hours every day since her detention in July 24.
Khater a noted critic of Israel’s practices in the occupied territories told a PPS lawyer that she is deliberately deprived of sleep and forced to eat something in the interrogation room.
She also said that she are verbally abused by interrogators who always threaten to detain her administratively for a long time and prevent her from seeing her youngest child Yehya.
Khater complained to the lawyer about her suffering from severe back pains as a result of the daily and protracted interrogation sessions held for her.
